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Report - One St. Peters Square Crane, Manchester - June 2013.

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Elisabeth House occupied that site until 2012 when it was demolished to make way for the new building, it was designed by Cruickshank and Seward, the architects of much of the UMIST campus

When it was built is a bit of a mystery, all the architectural references that bother to include it say it was between 1959 and 1960 however the Manchester Council Planning Department indicated that it was in fact built in 1971

One St. Peter’s Square will provide 268,000 sq ft of BREEAM ‘Excellent’, Grade ‘A’ office space in the centre of Manchester and the heart of the central business district once completed in March 2014

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It's probably been 3 years since I last bothered with a crane, mainly down to sheer laziness on my part I guess!

The last crane I climbed in Manchester was the old Origin crane which has long gone, to fill the gap there hasn't been much on offer other than SC which again purely down to cba I simply didn't bother with

(looking back I kinda wish I had made an effort really)

Since then these things are getting a lot trickier to conquer, gone are the days you can just rock up and climb a ladder hassle free to the top and back for a few snaps, it's probably better that way anyhow

Since last July/October respectively (once preperation work had been completed), Manchesters' latest additions to the skyline were erected

There are two cranes on site here, the bigger one obviously being the main target for anyone that way inclined, the height (85-90m approx)

Like anything out of reach, the more you stare at, the more you want but like most stuff these days I kept looking instead of bothering to have a crack